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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Updates coming...busy, busy, busy

I remember a saying about how life was not mean to be strolled through, but used up, worn out, every precious drop of energy and enthusiasm wrung from it, missing nothing so that when you skidded across home base you were sure to wipe your brow and exclaim, Wow! What a ride! It certainly feels like that’s what we did with the Month of May. These last few weeks have been jam packed with activity, and every spare minute used to plan and prepare for more! We are engaged!

Scoops of Knox Prairie...

Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in Rhineland, Texas

...was established as colony in 1895 by Father Reisdorf. Also started Nazareth and Windthorst and other colonies. This bldg started in 1927 after old church burned. Built by local parishioners, 80,000 bricks made 6 at a time. Depression and World War held up completion until 1951. Hard carved Gothic Alter completed in 1900.

Brine Lake

The Narrows~

As mysterious and beautiful as any movie location you may remember from Dances with Wolves or other Western epic, and as environmentally significant as any African documentary setting, “The Narrows” is a natural phenomenon separating and distinguishing the flow of the Brazos to the Gulf of Mexico from the Wichita which winds up in the Mississippi River. Long before cattlemen discovered this lush oasis surrounded by canyons and ravines, Comanche, Wichita, Kiowa, Apache, Seminole, and Tonkawa tribes wintered here. From the beginning of mankind, every one at some time based their camps here between the rivers, while hunting the bison that grazed the clumps of “buffalo” grass, drinking and bathing from the natural springs and capturing and taming the herds of wild mustangs. Check it out 6 miles east of Benjamin on Hwy 82 and let your imagination run wild for your own experience “above and beyond.”